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U.S. Declares War on Dissent in Miami

category international | anti-capitalism | feature author Thursday November 27, 2003 01:20author by imc editorial Group Report this post to the editors

United Steelworkers to raise Miami police behaviour in U.S. Congress

Police in Miami

As George Bush was being greeted by hundreds of thousands of protestors in London, his little brother Jeb, governor of Florida, was demonstrating how to deal with dissent, Bush-style. The occasion was the FTAA summit in Miami. Tens of thousands of trade unionists and anti-capitalists came from all over the Americas to protest against this inequitable attempt to establish a 'free' trade area of the Americas. They were met with an unprecedented level of repression. Indymedia established a dedicated FTAA server and infoshop.org also created a special site to cover the protests. They provide a huge number of personal accounts of the violent assault on the right to protest that they encountered in Miami.

Several excellent reports are available elsewhere on the net, including DemocracyNow!'s Jeremy Scahill report on the "embedding" of journalists and assaults on independent journalists and Naomi Klein's description of the new "Miami model" of reportage as the war comes home.

The severity of the repression, including allegations of torture and sexual assaults in prisons, has provoked a backlash from organised labour. The one positive note is the increased solidarity between the more radical unions and the black bloc.

ORIGINAL NEWSWIRE STORY FROM PHUGHEDD(sic) FOLLOWS

Now that the teargas has settled, and the evidence of police violence (yet again) mounts, calls are being made for the removal of police commissioner Richard Timoney for his supervision on the assaults on protestors against the FTAA in Miami. One union has decided to raise the issue in the US congress.

Several excellent reports are available which several explicit and detailed objections to the conduct of the police.

DemocracyNow!'s Jeremy Scahill reported that the "embedding" of journalists has been imported from Iraq to the police in Miami and that severe assaults were perpetrated on anyone the police felt like. His article details the assaults upon him and another DN! reporter including a personal encounter with police chief Timoney:
http://www.counterpunch.org/scahill11242003.html

Naomi Klein in the Guardian describes this new "Miami model" of embedded journalists and paramilitary police as being an example of the "war coming home" and ends with a sinister quote about the upcoming Republican National Convention (Timoney's first blooding occurred at the RNC in 2000)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1093185,00.html

Democracy Now! of Nov 26th reports that the United Steelworkers are attempting to have the issue of the funding for this "policing" raised in congress (it was part of the $87 billion supposedly earmarked for Iraq) and also contains interviews with a United Steelworkers representative (an veteran of the Navy) who condemns the treatment of the protestors including the diversion of union members to a police trap, an interview with a "senior" who relates how his group of 13 buses of seniors had an agreement with the police that they'd be given safe passage. This was reneged on, they walked the last few miles and then were led into a police trap.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/26/1538221

Moral of the story: don't trust the police -- they lie when it suits them.

SF-indymedia claims several serious sexual assaults have occured to the arrested protestors. I really hope this is just cop black-ops trying to instil fear in people:
http://sf.indymedia.org/features/wto/

However, on a positive note, the solidarity between awakened elements of the unions and the black bloc is strengthening:
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/11/1661487.php

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Mr. Hedd - maybe try this next time - or even this time     ec    Wed Nov 26, 2003 21:56 
   Soldiers disguised as police and the awful new look to this site.     Caspian    Thu Nov 27, 2003 09:02 
   I like the new Comments Section     Caliban    Thu Nov 27, 2003 09:30 
   don't you understand.....     barry    Thu Nov 27, 2003 20:05 
   Don't worry Barry     Sechnall    Thu Nov 27, 2003 23:14 
   Good compilation of miami info/stories here at SF IMC     ec    Fri Nov 28, 2003 15:40 
   Miami Herald declares 'Anarchists have won'     Joe    Fri Nov 28, 2003 17:17 
   Disturbing Quote from Naomi     redjade    Sat Nov 29, 2003 12:17 
   FTAA Blog     redjade    Sat Nov 29, 2003 12:39 
 10   Hogtied and Abused at Fort Benning     redjade    Sat Nov 29, 2003 13:39 
 11   ec - thanks for the help     Phuq Hedd    Sat Nov 29, 2003 19:39 
 12   Me name's on the list...     Daithí    Sat Nov 29, 2003 21:53 
 13   sorry bout that ms hedd     ec    Sat Nov 29, 2003 22:55 
 14   more photos and stories     redjade    Sun Nov 30, 2003 15:01 
 15   Miami New Times Reporter Arrested     redjade    Sun Nov 30, 2003 15:29 
 16   Disgusted     Travelwise    Sun Nov 30, 2003 15:59 
 17   More US Civil Liberty News     redjade    Sun Nov 30, 2003 16:23 


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